Group photo in Art Centre Fluxus
Announcement before the Seminar
Participants
Pics Album 1: Concert De Kade Frank-Jim-Bob-Andre-Ron-Cecile-Rick-Carel
Pics Album 2
Pics Album 3
Pics Album 4
Pics Album 5 - Dinner at Frank's 10-4-2004
Reviews of the Seminar 2-3-4 April 2004 Holland
Frank Leurs - Stickist/Singer and co-organizer of the Seminar
Ron Baggerman/Galaxy Gypsy Productions co-organizer Seminar and Stickimporter from NL:
Friday night 2 April 2004:
Teacher concert in De Kade in Zaandam. We had a great Rhythm tandem consisting of drummer extra-ordinary Carel Vrieling who runs the drumschool Rhythm Change in Zaandam and
percussionist Rick Burgemeestre from Maracazz from Alphen a.d. Rijn who was in wonderful shape and kept everybody inspired
Rick Burgemeeste - Andre Pelat
Frank Leurs started the night with presenting and playing an original tune on his Grand Midified Stick.Then it was Jim's turn to take on the eager waiting crowd. Jim did well, although it was though for him, since his voice was not in great shape, but this way he did a great Tom Waits impression:). Luckely his Stickplaying didn't suffer and he shared great music with us.
Andre Pelat showed again that he's a man with many hats. Although he'a known for his mastery of classical music he's no slouch when it comes to Jazz, Latin or Rock. Andre surprised us also when he played with Cecile Broche who's an excellent electric violin player from Belgium. this month (April) he's featured on www.stick.com as Stickplayer of the month. Keep up the good work Andre!
Bob Culbertson
Bob Culbertson's mesmerizing way of playing Acoustic and Electric Stick left the audience with the impression that it wasn't gonna get any better than this!
He also played an interesting avantgarde improvisation with Andre , Cecile, Rick and Carel.
Ron Baggerman
-I'm not sure if it got any better (I'll let the other's be the judge of this:)) but finally I could make some noise as well!
We ended with a tune played as a grand finale with Jim, Andre, Bob, Rick, Carel and me playing some mean funk!
A nice surprise to see Stickist Karsten Roeth who runs the German Stick site from Germany in the audience who drove a long way just to see this concert. He is the organizer of the German Seminars.
Saturday 3 April 2004
It was hard to get up early after such a intensive fridaynight , don't ask me how we did it. We got the teacher's from the hotel and the participants from their "Dental Hotel" , unfortunately there were no showers there, and we found out at the end of the weekend that we could shower at the school! Oh well...at least next year we'll have a clean seminar:)
We finally made it in one piece to the Art-centre Fluxus But not after we raided the local bakkery of sandwiches and Turkish Pizza's!
The tea and coffee at the School did their work and off we went. We had divided ourselves into 4 groups and start to get a grasp of the Stick Secrets which were presented by the very capable teachers.
At the end of the day Frank had arranged a surprise: a tour with a boat around Zaandam. Yes, a Dutch Treat it was, but in a more positive way:) , waterway, mills, etc. we've seen it all. The tour ended at the cafe De Toog where we had a delicious Indonesian Buffet.
I stayed in De Toog to play with drummer Juul du Perron , who played with a lot of inpiration,feeling and was very steady and focussed.
Frank also sang a few songs with us and got the crowd going, as he does usually.
Then Olivier Vuille from Switserland got up and performed some beatles oriented tunes. I saw him perform in Switserland for the first time and noticed great progress! I especially enoyed his version of Amsterdam a song by Jaques Brel which Olivier played especially for me, thanks Olivier!
In between Mathias Sorof played some inspiring tunes of his CDs and also Antoine Ratel from France who plays in Tarace Boulbawas funking the night away together with Juul Duperron on drums.
In De Koninck Jim Lampi played with drummer Ben Rozema
In The Blacksmith you could enjoy Andre Pelat and violonist Cecile Broche
In Gambrinus one could witness Bob Culbertson and Lex Bak on drums .
Sunday 5 April 2004
This time Stickist and participant Patrick van Hooijdonk was so kind to pick up the teachers from the hotel, so instead of 7hoo I could wake up at 8hoo. We still had slept only a few hours as everybody else, but the strong coffee did the trick.
Teachers and students were still very concentrated, although in the afternoon I noticed some yawning.....the silent witnesses of a few days of intensive studying, concerts, food and....beer.
Carel Vrieling
The Blacksmith was the place for the Stick Jam Session. Drummer Carel Vrieling was again backing us in a solid way!
Frank and I started the night. Jim was grooving the hell out of the place as usual. Bob did a hypnotizing version of Little Wing. Andre was Jazzing as if his life depended on it.
Mathias Sorof from Germany played some very tasteful tunes, with a lot of feeling. His melody is very warm, a ballad he played gave me the goose bumps!
Then I played a short tune on the NS-Stick, maybe next time Stickist Stefan Huth from Germany should do this since I heard him play this and sounded better on this perticular instrument than I!
Antoine Ratel who plays in the French Funk Big Band Tarace Boulba got up and played with Francois Becot , they both funked up the place, you just had to dance to it!
It ended with me playing with Francois, he showed that besides being a clown he can also play. He showed me this weekend that he already had figured out a lot of stuff I play on his own.
I thank everybody for their inspiring presence and especially Frank Leurs, without his efforts it would've been impossible to organize this great event. Thanks also to Judy for her great spirit and ideas, Silvan Jongerius for the sound and more logistic things. Danielle for all the assistance.
And a big thanks to you : you, the participants , we're proud to have had you here, we're counting on you to be there next year!
And a very, very special gracias goes of course to Emmett Chapman for inventing this magic instrument and Yuta Chapman for all her hard work throughout the years.
Stick together!
Ron Baggerman & Frank Leurs
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Olivier Vuille , participant and organizer of the Swiss Stick Seminar 2003 :
Hello Everybody,
Just a few first impressions about the European seminar in Zaandam
(Holland)
last week-end.
1. Top organisation: Ron Baggerman and Frank Leurs did a splendid job.
The school (Fluxus cultural center) was great, nice rooms.
2. Top teachers: Bob Culbertson , Jim Lampi, Ron Baggerman, Andre Pelat.
3. Top students: Dutch, british, german, italian, french and swiss.
4. Top food: Indonesian, Turkish, Dutch.
5. Top concerts on saturday night: in 4 (four) clubs at the same time.
Sticks were all over Zaandam.
6. Top beer: I still had a slight buzz when I woke up this morning.
7. Top Stick-boat trip on the canal from the school to the restaurant.
One hell of a great event.
A big BRAVO to everyone for a whole lot of FUN (and at least 2 years
of hard work ahead to incorporate all we saw, heard and experienced on THE
instrument)
Oliver Vuille Participant and organizer of the Swiss Stick Seminar 2003
Don Verstraten :
I had a great
time at the seminar in Zaandam,
And i hope to see you all next
year ore maybe sooner ????
Trickysticky Don
Ged Lynn
I had a brilliant time at Zaandam. I am trying get some stick things started over here in England. Keep in touch
Ged
Francois Becot from France :
Merci, Ron et Frank Leurs pour l'organisation de ce séminaire !
Les profs, l'ambiance, la musique, les cours, ... tout cet ensemble
m'a redonné de l'énergie pour retravailler le stick !
Merci encore.... et en plus pour les photos sur le site internet !
Francois
Andre Pelat's Site: Stick Teacher from France in French
Click here Andre's review in English
En partant pour ce séminaire de Stick en Hollande, j'étais tellement heureux
de savoir que j'allais rencontrer
une fois de plus tous ces amoureux du stick, que ne voulant pas rater l'
avion, je fonçais allègrement en voiture vers l'aéroport, mais un fier
motard assisté par son radar (dur ! la France maintenant !) m'a gentiment
fait comprendre que j'avais le temps..
Après avoir mangé le bénéfice avant de l'avoir gagné, je savais donc que j'
allais aux Pays-Bas uniquement pour le fun !
Et le fun était au rendez-vous.
Ron Baggerman Rock stick, Bob Culbertson the Master, André Pelat ( c'est moi
! ) , musicien accomplis remplis d'humanité et de joie,le lendemain Jim
Lampi et son groove extraordinaire.
Tout était là pour cette fête du stick (30 ans déjà !),tout juste après le
World Stick Seminar à San Jose in California.
Les students étaient vraiment intérréssé, avaient envie de découvrir et de
progresser, d'apprendre, plein de questions pertinentes et aussi d'émotion
pendant les cours ; et toujours cette ambiance si agréable spécifique aux
joueurs de stick (Est ce l'instrument qui veut çà ?) pas de compétition, de
jalousie, d'égo démesuré, mais au contraire une écoute des autres et une
compréhension sympathique et chaleureuse.
Les concerts
Merci Ron d'avoir ouvert à d'autres musiciens le séminaire,les différents
batteurs,le percussionniste excellent et inventif du vendredi soir et au
violon électrique de Cécile Broché et ses solos de feux.
Cécile Broché
Le concert du vendredi réservé aux teachers/ je crois que c'était une
véritable leçons pour tous (y compris les prof !),Quel bonheur que de voir d
'autres jouer réellement bien du Stick ! Quelle source d'inspiration intense
!
Samedi très original entre la ballade en bateau mouche sur le zaan (merci
Judy !) et les concerts aux 4 coins de la ville.
Zaandam était devenu « Woodstick » ! Pauvre students dont certains ont fait le
maximum pour essayer de voir tout, un a fait 45 mn à pied pour assister au
concert de Jim et d'André Ouaw !
On a vraiment joué pour les habitants de Zaandam ,le public n'était pas rempli
de student et ce n'était pas gagné d'avance et je crois que partout le stick
a tenu ses promesse et a ravi un public très ouvert.
Le concert du dimanche au Blacksmith était « du feu » chacun a donné le
meilleur de lui-même. les élèves ont été d'excellent ambassadeur du stick
merci à Mathias, Antoine, François
A quel groove !
On n'a pas envie que cela finisse ! Alors rendez-vous au prochain séminaire
!
Un grand merci a Frank pour la coordination et a Ron pour l'organisation du
séminaire, Silvan pour le son et tous les amis de Ron qui ont aidé au bon
déroulement de cette entreprise.
Merci a tous les joueurs de stick pour votre enthousiasme à suivre et aider
à l'aventure de cet instrument qui nous fascine.
A bientôt
Andre Pelat
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Phillipe McGlinchey (Mac Popoki) in French:
Hey Ron & Frank,
Une petite lettre pour te remercier du Stick Seminar, avec le bon sourire et la joie de Frank en plus.
La Hollande est le Pays du sourire et de la bonne humeur et de la bonne biere.
Merci pour tout, c'etait SUPER, je suis la l'anne prochane, c'est sur , et je jouerais avec toi la Funck! Yes!! Too cool!!
You and Frank are Super-Men:)!!!
Je le repete peut etre mais le stick seminar etait superbe !! Cela m'a donne
de la force , de
l'esperance et surtout une nouvelle vision de jeux , je crois que je vais me
faire greffer une
troisieme main !! jokes !!
Si on avait su que les
bieres dans le frigo
etaient pour nous , je crois que l'on se seraient mis une bonne dose , c'est
mieux comme ca !!
parcqu'au sinon on auraient rien compris au seminaire !!!
Met une petite biere pour Franck a mon compte et prend toi en une enorme
aussi !!!
J'esperes que l'on se verras bientot , et si l'envie te prend de venir voir
les frenchies , on se feras un plaisir de te recevoir !!!
a bientot mes amis
mac the fool
Phillipe McGlinchey
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